Why America's top pundits are wrong : anthropologists talk back /
In this fresh, literate, and biting critique of current thinking on some of today's most important and controversial topics, leading anthropologists take on some of America's top pundits. This absorbing collection of essays subjects such popular commentators as Thomas Friedman, Samuel Hunt...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2005.
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Colección: | California series in public anthropology ;
13. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Seven deadly sins of Samuel Huntington / Hugh Gusterson
- Samuel Huntington, meet the Nuer : kinship, local knowledge, and the clash of civilizations / Keith Brown
- Haunted by the imaginations of the past : Robert Kaplan's Balkan Ghosts / Tone Bringa
- Why I disagree with Robert Kaplan / Catherine Besteman
- Globalization and Thomas Friedman / Angelique Haugerud
- On the Lexus and the Olive Tree, by Thomas L. Friedman / Ellen Hertz and Laura Nader
- Extrastate globalization of the illicit / Carolyn Nordstrom
- Class politics and scavenger anthropology in Dinesh D'Souza's Virtue of Prosperity / Kath Weston
- Sex on the brain : A Natural History of Rape and the dubious doctrines of evolutionary psychology / Stefan Helmreich and Heather Paxson
- Anthropology and The Bell Curve / Jonathan Marks.